president clinton wrote in "new york times" op-ed. at the time i was widely criticized by liberals who thought the work requirements were too harsh and conservatives thought the work requirements too generous. 60% of mothers that left welfare found work far surpassing predictions of experts. this past summer the obama administration department health and human services dropped the requirement of that reform. they did so without the required approval of congress. >> this is a major expansion of executive authority, if it is legal. if it is legal, it is it's the teeniest loophole they are driving a truck through. >> why did the administration do it? one of the nation's leading scholars on welfare says it boils down to an argument between two schools of thought. those who think welfare recipients should seek work and versus those who lost the 1996 battle, one who thinks welfare recipients should get job training. >> people who are on the losing end of that argument are in large measure, in the administration. >> and does job training wor